Course paper scientific supervisor: D. Yuldasheva tasdiqlayman

Felicity conditions	Questioning
Apologizing
General condition	The communicants must understand the language	The communicants must understand the language
Content condition	To answer the question is the future act of the hearer	To forgive or not to forgive the speaker is the future act of the hearer
Preparatory condition	The speaker does not know the answer	The apologized act should be morally wrong
Sincerity condition	The speaker tends to know the answer	The speaker must not want the apologized act to happen again
Essential condition	The speaker undertakes to elicit information from the hearer	The speaker undertakes to inform a bad event

Felicity conditions on the acts of questioning and apologizing

In connection with felicity conditions as well, Austin later realizes that the category of performatives and constatives is not sufficient and thus, in an attempt to replace it by a general theory of speech acts, he ‘isolates three basic senses in which in saying something one is doing something, and hence three kinds of acts that are simultaneously performed’ (Levinson: 236): the locutionary, illocutioanary and perlocutionary acts.


The locutionary, illocutioanary and perlocutionary acts
Austin (1962: 98-108) distinguishes three dimensions of speech acts based on word-forces: Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary acts:

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